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All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us. For those you're still filtering appreciate if you can take your seats. You're having a conversation that's really important. Of course the outside hallway is always an option, but we're gonna go ahead and get started this evening. My name is Aaron Goodman. I am with the city of Detroit planning and development department. And I will be your emcee for the evening. And move us through this agenda. where it should be a very exciting evening. First of all, how many of you were with us last week? All right. Great. How many of you aren't here that for the first time? All right, that's good. Nice mix. I'd like to see that. So thank you. Welcome. You're here for the community benefits ordinance second meeting regarding the district Detroit proposal. Many of you may receive a notice in the mail or maybe you heard about in the media and we are here to take this project through the committee benefits process, which is unique across the country. So you're very lucky to be a part of it and we appreciate you all being here. Like I said, my name is Aaron. Just a cute few housekeeping items. Hopefully you enjoy the refreshments that were provided in the lobby. Just a reminder that food and drink is now allowed in the auditorium. Also restrooms if you need to use the restroom. It's you go back out your head right about halfway down. That long hall towards the south end of the hallway towards the south end of the school, excuse me. And speaking at school, just want to mention, you know, obviously we are here at the world renowned Cass Tech High School and there are torium we thank them again for being the gracious host of this process. So where we plan to be throughout this whole process, masks and and sanitizer available if you like to use that. And I'd also like to mention that addition everyone that you see here, we are joined by folks on zoom as well who are able to watch and we'll be able to provide their input and questions as well. And so I want to give a lot of thanks to the Media Services team and Department of neighborhoods team or making that happen behind the scenes and making it all look so smooth. So agenda this evening, so I'm doing a little bit welcome. We're gonna get to some introductions. We're going to hear from the development team for the district Detroit. They're gonna go over again, you know what the proposal is all the details and, and such. We're gonna talk about the CBO process, and tonight's a really exciting night because we get to see democracy in action. We're gonna have a neighborhood advisory council candidates, you're gonna get to meet them all. You're gonna get to vote as well for those of you that live in the impact area. So if you did you do live in the impact area think you did when you registered. We verified your address. You kept ballots. We'll go over more of that in detail. Candidates, those who are interested in serving our neighborhood Advisory Council are going to come up here and speak about why they're interested, why they want to serve. We'll have time for General q&a, you know, learn the results of those who are selected elected by your fellow neighbors to serve. Just real quick note, particularly for those on Zoom voting. It's only happening here in person so if you're attending on Zoom, and you live in the impact area, you're not gonna be able to vote over zoom. It's probably still time for you to get down here if you really want to vote. So just a note for that. And but voting is only happening here in person.
So keep going.
I don't see my director here. So maybe when he pops in, we'll give him a chance to say hi, but this all wouldn't be possible without the significant involvement of several city of Detroit departments including my colleagues at the planning and development department. Those in the mayor's office and the jobs Academy. Team. Yes, blue wave in the front and many work in the background, department neighborhoods. It's also here in force, and also the Detroit economic growth Corporation. Also very significantly, is the participation of Detroit City Council. Specifically in the community benefits ordinance process. We have three members of city council who each get to appoint a member the neighborhood Advisory Council. I don't know if any, we are joined at this moment by any city council members if they are here, or if their staff is here. Staff Hello. Wonderful and welcome. Thank you, to you and to your council members. We appreciate you being here. So councilmember young, second to at large member councilmember waters are at large member and Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romera is the District Six representative when we are in District Six, those are the three members that will have the opportunity to appoint
members to the NEC.
Finally, I'm gonna be joined in just a moment by representatives from Olympia development of Michigan and related companies and they are going to take you through the project details and let you all know just so you know about what it is we are just talking about. I just saw Director Brian slipped in I don't know if he wants to come up and say Hello Thank you, Director Antoine Bryan, director of the planning development department. And my boss so great to have him here. So just before I hand it over, just want to remind all materials from the CBO process are posted on our website. That's WW dat Detroit mi.gov Ford slash district Detroit, that QR code will also take you there, we put the presentations there, we put the meeting recordings there. We put it in the documents, you know, so get sign up for the email list. You'll get updates that way as well. So just want to put that out there. And without any further ado I would like to invite up Mr. Andrew Cantor and this is Brian Barnhill English. English Barnhill. I'm sorry. And let y'all take it away. Clicker, clicker All right. So welcome. Thank you.
Thanks, Sara. Thank you. All right.
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Awesome. Okay. Good evening, Detroit. Well, let's take the energy up a notch again. Good evening, Detroit. Oh, that's so much better. I am Ryan English Barnhill and I serve as Vice President of Government community affairs for Olympia, development of Michigan. Today I have the honor we're gonna go through this deck. It's the same deck that we did last week. We're gonna go through it at a little bit of a quicker pace. This is on the city's website for those who want to dig in a little further. But most notably, we're going to share the survey results from the folks who were here last week who participated in that survey around our community impacts to ground us in an agenda we'll discuss who we are our two companies together, the catalysts the project that kicks off all of this growth. Our approach this being a community centered process, the projects themselves the actual bricks and sticks, and then the impact that we believe this can have for the city of Detroit.
All right, my part so kickoff
for Olympia development, the company that I represent, we believe that our purpose is to improve the lives of Detroiters. I would say my purpose is to be a wonderful mother to my two children on the east side of Detroit right now eating pizza. But our purpose as a company is to improve the lives of Detroiters, and we want to do that through a myriad of ways. My colleagues and I believe that we can do this through affordable housing, significant job creation, historic renovation, placemaking education and entertainment. And to drill down on those a little bit and address a question that was in the realm of what has been done. I want to just dig in and say the historic Eddystone residences, we opened that in December of last year. It is 100% leased up which tells us there's demand for housing in downtown Detroit, Columbia Street, a fully activated space where we have lots of free and no cost programming for families to come down. We just took down Fall Fest and as you can expect, we now have winter fest going on the Little Caesars World Headquarters a gleaming glass structure that was completed Chevy Plaza it's a beautiful place where we have many, many festivals and engaging activities for families. The Wayne State, Mike Ilitch School of Business completed, it is a beautiful state of the art building. Oh, is that better? All right. That has seen a dramatic increase in enrollment particularly for Detroit students. Little Caesars arena, the second busiest building in the country next to Madison Square Garden 2715 Woodward. That is the home of BCG and Warner Norcross Judd and the historic former women's City Club a beautiful restored building with tremendous aquatic tile inside we have also brought that back to life. So to answer the question, what has been done, those projects have been completed. Next in queue is our affordable housing and historic renovation, outside of this next wave of development, so these are projects that are already in flight. As noted the Eddystone residences are completed with a 20% affordable housing in Residences at 150 Bagley. Henry Street Apartments are particularly proud of this project. It is seven individual buildings being redeveloped at one time, which works out to be a full city block. Another notable part of this project is we're working in tandem with Mariners and across the street in their project, to make sure that they're complementary and we're building out a neighborhood and not just an isolated building and then lastly, I often call this our engagement project. It is the platform group related and Olympia development of Michigan all in together on a project that brings a significant amount of affordable housing. All together. These are 475 total units that we are bringing forward before we even approach this next wave of
development.
Oh, I love this slide. And lastly, these are six new restaurants that we've opened. Five of them are small business owners, and so I encourage everyone to come down to the district Detroit. I know the pandemic has not done anything for small businesses and we really want to support them. And so these are businesses that are currently open and please come down and check them out. And now I will hand it over to my partner,
Andrew cantor. Thank you, Ryan. So
I'm Andrew cantor. I'm president of related Michigan. And a subsidiary of related companies, which is a 50 year old company. We were founded as a affordable housing developer, and are now one of the largest private owners of affordable housing in the country with over 60,000 units and I'm proud to say that we have never converted any of those units from the affordable to market rate. Since then, we have built a a broad range of of capabilities, which include the ability to bring kind of a mix of uses to downtown's and to bring large scale projects on line in a short amount of time and so that that's what we look forward to doing here as part of our partnership with Olympia. We have also as we've done it in really thoughtful about how to make sure that that the development is inclusive, and that is inclusive in terms of contracting inclusive in terms of job creation and opportunities and inclusive in terms of affordable housing being built into those projects. And so that is a key piece of the fabric of what we're working on here together. And it starts with a catalyst. So as we announced in December of 2021, the Detroit center for innovation will be moving here or will be will be constructed here as part of the within the district. It is a $250 million academic building that the University of Michigan will be will be bringing curriculum and programming to and it's what's really I think unique about this is it's a combination of both graduate level programs, but it also provides upskilling and rescaling for people who are looking to re enter the workforce or access or improve their opportunities when it comes to jobs. So we're talking about six week or six month programs, not just two year graduate degrees that are going to be available at the center. This is a happening as a result of a personal philanthropic contribution by Steven Ross, our chairman and founder as well as a match matching grant from the state of $100 million. So $200 million has been raised towards that and the grant requires that the project begin and break ground in 2023. So in terms of the questions that we've heard about what was really happened, this is where there's $100 million reason that this is definitely going to happen in 2023. So with that, the way that we're thinking about it, as I mentioned in terms of access, and we'll talk more about this and creating opportunity is as a larger partnership with other academic institutions, including Wayne State, including WCC CD and including Cass tech. And so this is really a broader partnership and we think of as a super campus for STEM opportunities, STEM learning across all of, you know, all of these different institutions. With that, I'm gonna hand it off back to Ryan to talk about our approach to development. Thank you,
Mike. Awesome. I just like to recognize councilmember young thank you for joining us this evening. Councilmember waters
here. Councilmember waters. Thank
you for joining us. I didn't see you there. Thank you for being here.
I've gotten my slide that order here but that's okay. I'll just speak to him this flesh. Okay, here we go.
Awesome. So let's talk about that community centered process. Outside of the CBO process long before our initial meeting on Tuesday. We have conducted over 250 engagement sessions and these have been led by city council and so we've gone out to the neighborhoods. We've got on a shuttle with folks who'd brought them down to the district Detroit to talk about what this next wave of development should look like. And also we've showed them our completed assets among those constituents where over 150 community leaders and block club captains and five community meetings took place within the impact area. Additionally, we've met with many nonprofit organizations, the business community and the philanthropic community. Just most notably, we frequently meet with Detroit public schools, community district, we've met with Detroit equity report, and we continue to have these meetings. So what it all of those meetings lead us to, we call this our five e framework. We believe that these are areas where we can effectuate change, and that is through education, employment, economic inclusion, environmental justice and engagement. So we unveiled these last week and I'm going to dig into some of the survey results to hear what people in the room thought about us making impact or inroads in these areas. Our top survey results in education indicate workforce training, and skilled trades are incredibly important. Financial scholarships for students and resources for dpscd kids. In the realm of employment, we found that training was a significant priority, continuing education opportunities which we see a natural fit at the DCI making sure that folks are aware of these job opportunities and that we are highly communicative in this process and career counseling. In the realm of economic inclusion, we find support for Detroiters to become entrepreneurs, opportunities to invest. Small business support and stable affordable housing. In the realm of environmental justice, top survey results say that micro mobility solutions, better transit connections, and more green space. I'm excited to go through these projects to even talk about how much green space we're adding in this plan. And lastly, I would say that this is my favorite e which is engagement. Things that are important to folks in this room is access to community space and district buildings, low and no cost programming and ongoing community engagement. With that, I will hand it over to Andrew to go through the projects themselves.
Thanks, Ryan. So
as we as we think about the projects informed by the information that we've garnered and through the the community conversations and what the opportunities that that presents, we have set out a plan that is really built around 10 projects within the application as well as two projects that are happening outside of it. So I already mentioned the academic building, that's what's shown as number as letter B here, and letter A is the Henry Street Apartments that Ryan already referred to and then the 10 projects are shown in the orange is red and the only thing I'd like to call out here is five a five V, which is the idea that there are 10 projects included but 11 sites and that's because we're intent on letting the market decide about which of the sites an anchor tenant wants to come to whether they want to be close to the academic building, or close to Woodward Avenue, which is the more traditional sort of demand driver right now. And the way that we structured the projects No, yes. All right. Is it is designed to be a mix of uses. It's six new projects and five renovated projects within the 11 it is you know it is designed to create to take old buildings, historic buildings and bring new life to them find new uses for them in many cases because the older use may not make sense anymore. And then to build new development on on parking lots and surface lots and so everything that you see that's in solid is being built on a surface lot. And anything that has the cross hatching is a historic renovation. And so we're very proud to create these kinds of nodes of energy or we're excited to create these nodes of energy, create a walkable district and areas where by creating more density in a concentrated fashion, we really think we can bring energy and vibrancy to these areas.
So I think
there is q&a that's been that's been built into this. I think we're just gonna run through quickly because I want to make sure that everyone has the information and then happy to head there. So the first project to talk about which is which were discussed somewhat is Henry Street Apartments. This is a you know this is a seven building project with 84 affordable units in it it's it's nearly half affordable units and as a result with you know at 30% Ami at as low as 30% Ami, so significantly moralizing this project is expected to start early in 2023. This is a 2200 Woodward This is an office building to be built directly in front of Comerica Park, where the right now there's a there's a surface parking lot. We take that surface parking lot below we build two levels of structured parking there have been questions is, you know where are people going to go into park this is we're creating parking below this and then an a retail base with restaurants along the front and a community space and public space right in front of Comerica Park for gathering when when you know both in season and out of season and then an office building above and that office building is important in terms of driving tax revenues and bringing talent and making sure that we can accommodate the talent that wants to come and be part of the the Detroit center for innovation. Also, when we talk to tenant when we talk to potential tenants for this building, the thing that we get asked consistently is where can my employees live and so one of the options across on the other side is is right here and this is this is 2250 Woodward. This is a 287 unit building and in it we're planning 20% affordable housing at 50% of AMI. So in all these billings you're gonna hear consistently that we are building a significant amount of not just affordable housing but deeply affordable housing. And so if AMI right now in the county is something or in the in the zone is approximately $60,000 We're talking about an AMI that's closer to 330 $1,000 in income of about $30,000 here that would qualify you to live in these apartments. So we're talking this is really about meeting the need that we've heard from the community consistently across the street from that taking the Fox Theater, which is what you know, and leaving it and preserving it but then on top of that taking the office building that sits above it, and converting that from an office building, which at this point is dated and really doesn't work as an office building into a hotel. It allows more people to get access to it. It brings a new life and a new reason to not just come downtown but actually to stay downtown creates jobs as a result of that. And we think really leverages what is a true icon of the city of Detroit in a way that's much more kind of public and will have more broad benefit for for the entire city. And then across the street from that. We're planning a smaller office building 2300 Woodward which is designed really to be lower in scale set back from St. John's Church, making sure that there were sightlines to the spire, and that you really kind of were mixing the old and the new in a respectful way as we move the city forward. And then across the street from that on the other side of Woodward, we have one of the two sites where we are we're proposing an office tower, this one located at basically Fisher service drive and and Woodward. It's the current location of Hockeytown Cafe, which will have to find a new home. But if this will bring significant new jobs 2000 permanent jobs in this and if it's not located here, it would be located if a tenant says instead they want to be closer to the academic building. They will be located here on Cass at 2300. CASS providing the same economic benefit for the city overall. And then a project that we announced a couple of months ago. This is right in front of Little Caesars arena, which as Ryan mentioned, is the second busiest Arena in the country. And right now, if you're if you're coming to Little Caesars arena, and you want to stay the night, there's nowhere near right nearby to stay. If you're a team that's in town, and you want your plane at the arena and you want to stay you're in many cases, leaving the city and headed to neighborhoods or, you know, communities outside of the city. And so that's lost revenue that's lost opportunity for jobs. And so what we're proposing is a 290 key hotel that would sit right here and help to stitch kind of the the walkability and increase kind of the connection as you move north along Woodward. And then on Temple, just kind of diagonally across from the Eddystone, which Ryan mentioned has successfully been developed. We're planning to take the historic American hotel building which has sat vacant and converted into new residential with 20% affordable housing. Again that affordable housing at 50% of AMI or lower it's 40 and 50% of AMI and important project both to bring life to to this corner and also supporting the Masonic and Cass Park which all sit adjacent to this as well. So this is about creating, again, development upcast that is spurred by the Center for Innovation. And then right next to the center of innovation another residential building. This is 260 resident residential units of those 20% are slated to be affordable at the 50% Ami or lower level. And this is really to create kind of a mini campus with the with the residential, the academic and then also the incubator and so this is an incubator building taking the old loiter in the Moose Lodge and converting it from from kind of a vacant building historic in nature, but not technically I suppose historic to to a new use and this is this is kind of a classic example of a use that no longer made sense and finding one that does and it's really productive for for the city because it is a home to entrepreneurship and a way for companies citizens residents and and the university to be able to partner and interface in this dedicated space. Finally, the Detroit life building this is originally was an office building. Another example of a building that as an as an office building doesn't make sense anymore. Small floorplates lots of columns. It's really sort of past its prime but as a residential building. It really works well now and so the plan is to bring this back, restore it, bring it back to life, bring it back into service by building 16 residential units smaller here and making up the affordable that that won't go into this in the other units in the other projects around. So overall we hit that 20% requirement and do it at the lower Ami. So when does all this happen? Well it starts next year and it starts with three projects. The first one being the Henry Street Apartments, the second one being the academic building, and the third one being 2200 Woodward, the office building that sits right in front of Comerica Park and then continues on from there. It is a lot it is ambitious this plan but we really think that by creating by bringing everything together and bringing these mix of uses together at once we have a chance to really kind of move the needle be catalytic and change the experience downtown doing this incrementally is not we think the solution and honestly the mix of uses together is a critical part of this having the office residential hotel all come together with the retail is what makes for a vibrant downtown neighborhood. So with that, I'm gonna hand off to Ryan just talking about the impact
and I know we are on the city clock so I will go through this very quickly. But there's some some key headlines that I don't want us to miss. Thank you. So the big headline here is this is $1.4 billion of private investment to drive six projects as Andrew noted, these are ground up construction projects. We have heard this surfing parking lots going vertical is critically important to Detroiters five renovated historic projects 18,000 jobs and I just don't want to miss that. That's 12,000 construction jobs and 6000 permanent jobs. Someone had a question about the wealth gap. How do we close that through good paying jobs. Lastly, 865 mixed income residential units. Yes, ma'am. 12,000 jobs and the way to close that gap is through good paying jobs, get a good paying job. That's a pathway to home ownership, and that pathway leads to neighborhood stabilization. And so thank you for highlighting that. And 146,000 square feet of retail 467 hotel rooms and $2.2 billion of net fiscal benefit. And just to touch on the jobs because we know that is critically important. These are the myriad of jobs that we are bringing forward. I won't go through this full list as you know it is available on the city's website. But these are jobs at all income levels. And we are proud to present these to Detroiters and we'd like to take part in them. That brings us to the end of our presentation but I would even say this is the most important part Thank you. This part here is that engagement piece if you can take out your cell phone if you're not here on the first presentation on Tuesday. This gives you an opportunity to give us the feedback that we are craving that we take to our development table and we implement. So please take this survey I will report back to the elected neck and provide these survey results. I would like to say good luck to everyone who puts themselves forward and we really do look forward to creating a meaningful benefit agreement with you.
Thank you once it all right. Thank
you so much, Ryan and Andrew for that great presentation for getting us through it and quite efficiently and really appreciate
that. going the wrong way here. No, I am on the right way.
So the next section of tonight we're going to talk about the community benefits ordinance. Before I do that I did here we are joined by a couple of city council members. Councilmember young, I see you and Councilmember waters back there. I don't know if councilmember Gabriela Santiago Ramirez here. Did you all want to say a greeting for just a minute? Hey, okay, we are going to have q&a. I appreciate your patience. That's going to happen. Okay, thank you, sir. Well, it's gonna happen probably about 730 ish. Okay.
Sounds familiar. Yeah, sure. Okay.
Yeah. I just want to say to everyone here, thank you so much for coming and being part of the process. You know, it's really like they say pressure either busts pipes or makes diamonds and I think that this process will make a diamond. I just want to say I appreciate all of you being here. We will get to everybody's questions. Everybody's comments are important. We want to make sure that we address this as much as we possibly can. I'm just here to hear any conversation or concerns or anything you might want to see in legislation. Please let me know. We're on break. We will be back in January. That's we'll get back officially but I just wanted to hear what you had to say. What you like about this, what you think is great what you think is not and if I can help you afterwards, please let me know my staff will be here as well. My team can assist here as well, who will be helping you so thank you so much for your time and I appreciate you.
Thank you, Councilmember and thank you councilmember waters again for being here. So we'll keep it moving. Just talk about what is the community benefits ordinance, which is the reason we're all here today, and why we've brought you all together. So just so people know that can be benefits ordinance, first in the nation, of any city to have such an ordinance, so it's really unique. It's really a credit to Detroiters and then what they wanted to see our development. It was approved by the tourism in the 2016 election since been amended by City Council last fall. And really just in a nutshell, it's a process for developers to proactively engage with the community to identify and address project impacts. Real briefly, how does a project qualify? The committee benefits ordinance? Basically two items, one, it has to be an investment of at least $75 million in construction costs. And second, it has to be seeking some sort of city support in the form of a city tax abatement, or in the form of land that the city is transferring to the developer to help with that project. And those had to be valued at $2 million. So investment plus city support. We've done 12 tier one CBO projects since this ordinance was passed. You can see many of them are in the Midtown downtown and new center area but also some in southwest Detroit core town even on the east side. So Michigan Central Station, the Hudsons project projects like those have all gone through this process. We've had 12 Like I mentioned CBO projects 85 community meetings, over 1000 residents that participated in over 120 residents have served on a neighborhood Advisory Council and we're gonna talk more about the neighborhood Advisory Council in a moment. But just, you know, positive outcomes. It's really a great way to create an opportunity for meaningful community engagement and private developments. The community has the opportunity expressed what's important to them in direct dialogue with the developer which is what this process is all about. The developer has a chance to hear what's important to the community and respond and modify their plans, and the community is better informed about the project and construction timeline. And maybe most significantly, it gives Detroiters regulatories an opportunity to significantly participate in the city's growth and development. So how does it work? So first, we create a project impact area, which includes at least the census tract for the project, sometimes multiple census tracts and everyone within that project impact area gets a mailer and notice for this meeting, and that impact area is really important and so many of you got that, you know this mailer here, in the mail if you live within the impact area. And so that impact area is really important to determine who can serve on the neighborhood Advisory Council and who can vote to select the two community elected members of the community advisory council neighborhood Advisory Council, excuse me. And this process is all set up to focus the discussion on the impact area residents and what's important to them. However, these meetings are open to the public. And anyone is welcome to participate. Real brief in in succinct form. Once we formed the neighborhood Advisory Council, the NAC as it's known and will you'll start to hear that kind of acronym, meets with planning and development and the developer in the community in form of a series community meetings. To identify project impacts. The NAC will develop suggestions to AI to those identified impacts, and the developer will respond and sometimes that can happen over kind of an iterative process. Finally, the city and the developer will generate an agreement in response to those impacts and the neck with the next report will be submitted to City Council for approval. A little more detail typically a CBO process takes about 10 weeks, because the holidays this one's gonna take a little longer. We're gonna have a break here and after this meeting until January, but there's a series of public meetings a series of topics.
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thank you. So we'll get more into detail of the schedule. However, once the tier one meetings are completed, the neighborhood advisory council with their agreement would sign a letter of support for the negotiated community benefits process. We create a community benefits report that is authored by PDD it's submitted with the development package the City Council will deliberate on it along with incentives request. And then if City Council agrees they will they have the option to approve that committee benefits provision, and then we go into monitoring enforcement after the agreement and that goes on for several years. All documents reports are posted the city trades website. Just real briefly, I won't go over this too much. And these are things we talked about last week. But you know, these projects there were described by the developer do qualify under tier one of the CBO. And because of the construction costs because they're seeking a safety trait, tax abatement. And TDD has identified some potential impacts. These are not necessarily the things that the NEC has to discuss or as required discussed, but just to help them kind of think about it but talking about things like construction, site design, jobs and education, housing and retail and Sustainability and Environment are things that you know, when when our staff looked at these proposals or things that the NEC may be interested in discussing by city council members, the three city council members we mentioned earlier, each of them are able to appoint one member says the two at large members and the member representing the district. This case does are six for other members of the neighborhood Advisory Council are appointed by planning and development. So you have nine. Additionally, we often appoint an alternate and that's just because sometimes someone can't make it through the whole process. They have to leave we want to have someone able to step in who's been part of the process and able to participate fully. In order to participate in the neighborhood Advisory Council either as a member or to vote you have to live within the impact area. When you signed in tonight we asked for your address we checked to make sure hey, do you live in the impact area do you not live in the impact area if you live in the impact area? You got a silver wristband, you should have a ballot. So hopefully you held on to that. If you don't live in the impact area. Then you got an orange wristband and you're more than welcome to be here and participate but for this part, you won't be able to vote. So just as you can see, it's a rather large impact area, extending all the way up to MLK Boulevard Mac, all the way down basically to Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street and between the two freeways Lodge and I 75. Roles and responsibilities. It's quite a bit is is a really big responsibility to take on if you're serving in a very Advisory Council. It's a lot of commitment. So we really appreciate our members because you're volunteers and you're given a lot over the next couple of months. But very basic level you have to be a resident and picked area you have to be 18 years of age can't be an employee or an agent of the developer or the city of Detroit. You have to be nominated or nominate yourself tonight. So if you're here, you're in the right spot. You have to
for duty. You have to
attend all the CBO meetings have developed that neck impact list that we talked about. Review the community benefits report that planning and development will author once you are satisfied with what's in the report and what's been negotiated. You will develop a letter of support for the proposed community benefits and then participate in compliance after the agreement including biannual compliance reports, reviewing those and attending the annual meetings. This responsibilities you can't use this position for personal gain. You have to declare any conflicts of interest. You're agreeing to represent your fellow residents you're agreeing to provide feedback to the community. You're agreeing to work together with your fellow NEC members to make official recommendations to mitigate any negative impacts of the project. And you're advising the city trade and city council on how to best mitigate those impacts. This is an important to just to note the schedule of meetings that we have planned out here because if you're coming to serve on the neck, you need to know when we're going to be meeting and when you have to attend. So here we are. This is the second meeting December 6. We're going to take a break for the holidays after tonight. And we're gonna come back on January 10th. Tuesday, Same Same time, same place right here. And we're gonna be meeting every Tuesday night until really the end of February. So I hope your Tuesdays are free. Please check out your calendar. It's very important. Your full participation is important and very much appreciated. And you know, again, this is on the website as well but Tuesdays in January in February, just keep that in your mind.
Six o'clock. So,
neighbor Advisory Council nominees, as I mentioned open to residents who live in the impact area over 18 Tonight you're in just a few minutes, you're gonna you're gonna line up you can pull yourself forward as a potential candidate. Again, if you have any conflicts of interest with the developer, need to declare those. You have to be able to attend all the public CVO meetings and you're going to verify your address. And each candidate will have two minutes to speak about why they want to serve. So that is where I'm going to end now. And so, at this moment, if you are here to put yourself forward as a candidate for the neighborhood Advisory Council I would ask you to come over to my left the right side, Mr. Edwina King, over there. We're gonna line up we're going to verify some of you for your interest last week and we have your information we'll confirm it. If your is your first meeting. We're going to take down your information your address, and once the first person is ready, we're going to have you come up or bring a timer up. We'll have someone with time science so you can know how long you have. So we're going to give people a moment to organize with that and you'll have two minutes, but you know, you don't have to make a long speech necessarily. Just want to make sure you introduce yourself, you put yourself forward. And also I just want to say this, even if you don't get elected tonight, or you think you're gonna get appointed by a council member, or by PDD you still have to come and introduce yourself tonight. This is how you get the nomination list. And everyone who does appointments they all have to work off the same nomination list. And this way the community gets to know who's looking to represent them on a neighborhood Advisory Council. long speech if you're shy, you know you don't you don't feel necessarily comfortable speaking in front of group of people still online, you just come up and say hi, introduce yourself. And I see a lot of interest. So that is very exciting. So I'm gonna take a pause and stop talking for a second and we'll let people get organized and appreciate your patience. Thank you.
And while people are getting signed in, when we have the first person who's signed in and is ready to speak, we can get going with those remarks. Is that is that good? All right, we're gonna bring the first one up Miss Ava we can go ahead and let the mic go on.
Oh Mr. Roberson. Okay, well wait one more second. Okay.
Hello, are we bringing a microphone to her? Okay, so will happen. So, FYI for our video folks. We have one person who's not able to come on stage and we're going to have her speak from the audience. So, kind of in the center and the mezzanine if you if you all can
get that okay,
you want to test the mic,
make sure you can be heard. Testing.
Thank you. All right. So we're gonna go ahead and once you start talking, we'll start the timer.
Good evening, everyone. My name is Deirdre Jackson, and I am a lifelong resident of Detroit. I am a Okay, excuse me. I am a parent and a member of this community for over 30 years. I also have the unique situation of being a person a wheelchair user. So the reason why I would like to sit on the council is to provide a unique perspective to the developers and representing the individuals in the community like myself of which I am a member. And I'm also a senior, so I also represent the seniors in the community as well. So, being a mother, I'm also a parent, whom had a daughter that graduated from this high school in 2016 and went on to Michigan State as a graduate with a business degree from the Royal College. And I'm very proud of that. Thank you so I also work at Wayne County Community College as a part time faculty member, teach business at the college and I've been there for eight years now. upcoming anniversary in February. For nine. I'm very proud of the accomplishments that I've made over time living in this community. I have been here to see when it was thriving, and then watch its decline. And I've always been optimistic about the resurgence of the city. And I just believe that I will bring a unique perspective to the board as a council member. Thank you.
Thank you very much Miss Jackson.
Okay, I appreciate that. And we're gonna bring the next gentleman up here and we're gonna make sure this mic on tested to make sure it's on and then you'll be able to go ahead and we'll reset the timer to two minutes.
Testing. All right. All right. Hi, my name is Shawn cook. I have lived in the impact area for four years now. I've worked in downtown and midtown for over six years, and I have played in the city of Detroit for decades. Throughout my time in the city I have volunteered as a tree planter, a neighborhood cleanup and currently volunteer with the Belle Isle conservancy with their keep ll beautiful program. So I'm used to volunteering I'm used to committing myself to projects and I think with with this project in particular, I can use my effective listening skills and creative problem solving to to help understand what the community wants and needs out of this and come to agreement between the community and the developers. So thank you for the opportunity and
having night. Thank you, Mr.
Cook. We'll go ahead and by that we can reset the timer. And we'll go ahead and invite the next gentleman up. Yes. And just so you know, I didn't mention this before. You don't have to look back here for the time because Mr. Roberson on your left will give you signals
awesome. So can I start? Go right ahead. So my name is Steven hiring. I've been a resident for almost two years and small business owner in the impact area for almost seven years. Although I've been a big supporter of development over the years. I've seen many small businesses priced out for example, mad had Henry the Hatter and Russell Street Dally. Yeah. As a member of the NEC I will fight to make sure local businesses get their say and spot in the development and that space will be reserved for MCM and local minority owned businesses. Just like the Shinola hotel did what I said last time we don't need another Starbucks or a TNT. Yeah. Also as a transit activist and our TA C A C member, I will make sure this development is 100% transit friendly. And be the first development that benefits transit users. I believe being right next to Cass tech, the development could hire and mentor Cass Tech students at the hope housing retails for summer jobs and mentorships awesome for students interested in hospitality architecture or construction management. As someone who runs a web design and branding agency that has worked with several well known minority owned businesses in the city. I can really help get feedback and get people involved.
Alright, we'll go ahead and reset the timer.
Better next candidate up, just a reminder and maybe Josh maybe just a little bit closer so that people can catch their eye. And when you're ready, go ahead when you're ready.
Good evening everyone. My name is Reka James. I am a lifelong Detroiter. I've been in brush Park for the last 13 years. I'm a homeowner and I'm a business owner. My sister and I own the Cochran house Bed and Breakfast which is the overnight accommodation establishment two blocks from the new district Detroit. I would like to offer my offer my ideas to the neck because I feel like since I've been in Detroit, the landscape of this area has changed dramatically. I would like for black businesses to be represented for us not to get lost in the fold. Right now. I do have a lease with Olympia development. They have helped me and in trying to strategically partner with them. And I would like for them to pass those services along to other black businesses. So we won't fail when everything else develops. And so my entire mission is to make sure that we all have the opportunity to thrive in this community.
All right. Thank you Miss James. Okay,
we will invite the next person up we'll reset the timer. Sir, when you are ready, you can go ahead and start.
Good evening. My name is Rohingya lending. Calm Good to see you. My first meeting with a political leader was with your father in 1974. So we go back anyway, allow me a couple of things seem to be requisite in terms of being on this snack that we made clear last week. So let me start out I too am a native Detroiter, born and raised born in Herman keeper hospital. I am a graduate of Cass tech and I'm not ashamed to say class of 1970. I started out in this whole space we saw those areas. I've always back in the day it was three E's employment, economic development and education. Now it's five E's and it just enhances the scope of what these projects can do. I started out in the space of minority economic development, which is now economic inclusion, serving on minority Economic Development Committee of new Detroit, which as you all know, is an organization committed to community self determination and fundamentally committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Recently, the Chronicle wrote an article detailing in the developments associated with the neck and the CBO process, and quoted Nicole Freeman, who serves as the city's group executive for jobs economy in Detroit at work. She said developments of this quality and scale provide an incredible opportunity for Detroiters to directly benefit from them whether that means job training in the trades, employment and developments affordable housing or being part of the process. I'm proud to say that I have received endorsements back in 2001 and five when I ran for city council from the Chronicle. So if you trust the Chronicle, they've done a very good job in covering this process as Brady has. So anyway, as Business Services Director for several Michigan okay sir, that's it.
Thank you. That's it. That's been your
I serve on three Next I have the experience Rohit your landing I asked for your vote. Thank you.
Just a reminder, please keep an eye on Mr. Roberson to your left down in the well he's he's he's he's very helpful and letting you know your time. But thank you for that and timers reset. So go ahead.
Good evening, everyone. I'm Jonathan chemlok on the Wayne County Commissioner who represents the impact area. I'm a lifelong resident of Detroit growing up in the area of the city called the old west side, on the number streets. I've lived downtown and in the Midtown area for the last 17 years. The proposed projects are exciting and they will be transformational to the city of Detroit. But more specifically for these long vacant and under developed real estate. The CBA is role is to negotiate and to sin to the city of Detroit suggest that commitments which are prop which are proposed by the developers, but more importantly, those which come from you, our neighbors. We must hear from you during these NACK meetings, as well as outside the scheduled meetings as you reach out to us. Suggested benefits must be clear and have teeth to restrict arbitrary changes to promises me. I will listen to you because what is important is that we implement propose suggestions that will directly impact you that directly come from you. We shouldn't make sure that your needs and your concerns are addressed inside of this agreement. I'm Jonathan Kinloch, and I would appreciate your support. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Mr. Kinloch, Commissioner camlock Sorry. Okay, well got the time and reset. So at your leisure, right. I
see a lot of friends and neighbors out here already. But if we haven't met my name is Mike SE and I'm a resident of District Six and brush Park. So just on the east side of Woodward. I'm here tonight as a resident I've been here since before LCA was built so I've seen the area grow. I've benefited from that and also felt some of the pressure points as the area's continued to develop. I'm here specifically tonight in my role as a member of the board of the brush Park CDC. Our board president Mona Ross gardener asked me to present myself as a candidate, the brush Park CDC has been an organization based in our neighborhood for several decades now. And we advocate for various community interests and needs, one of the primary channels for engagement with the city of Detroit and so I think it would be a really great opportunity for this snack to leverage the community that we already have on the other side of Woodward in order to get feedback and input from residents in the area. So my name is Mike SE and again, I thank you for your consideration
my name is Ken Hall, hear me. I wouldn't be both proud and honored to serve either elected or selected to the neighborhood Advisory Council. A little background. My mom was born in Detroit. She's a proud graduate of Cody High School, the first graduating class of Cody, my mom and dad met working at what used to be known as the city county building now the Coleman a young municipal center. They had worked for the city for 37 years before he retired. And little known fun fact I've never met the councilman in front of me however, my father was an appointee of his father for the entire 20 year administration. I've got the time to commit I've got the passion. I've got the time to meet not only with the committee, but with any of you. You're probably here representing not only yourself, but your block, your neighborhood, your building, whatever the case may be. Last week, I was impressed with all of the concerns expressed by various stakeholders. I want to help ensure that not only did these projects, not negatively impact the zone, but in fact enhance the experience of living within the impact zone. I think that was the intent of the CBO so that is my brief story. I walked here I'm gonna walk home and try and stumble on the set of Beverly Hills Cop. Beverly Hills Cop. Thank you, Ken Hall atll.
Thank you
Next candidate can come right up. Timers reset, go ahead and start.
Good evening everyone. My name is Eddie Hall. I'm a resident of brush Park and also a business owner in the city of Detroit. I am the Chief Operating Officer for the automotive group. So I'm very proud to own and operate the only black owned dealership within the city walls. I'm a proud graduate of the University of Michigan. I'm a good listener and would love to engage with and work on this project. I'm a big believer that businesses partnering with and engaging with the community is a huge agent for change outside of work, I spend a lot of time advocating for increase minority representation with an automotive dealer body with various appointments on forced Atlantis and national dealer boards. I'm an accountant by background and like I said, you know I own a business in the city of Detroit and I really want to listen engage with you all and be an agent for change within the city. So again, Eddie hall I appreciate your support
thank you.
Okay, timers reset. You may start when you're ready.
Oh, good evening. To the councilman and Councilwoman Mary waters and all of you have gathered here this evening. My name is Chris Jackson. I was told to be brief. It's very hard when I'm very passionate and very connected about what is happening here in our city. And is was happening here in this impacted area. I will just very briefly does though go through why. You know I feel that this is something that I have an interest in being a part of being appointed or being elected. One I am a Detroit are born and raised here. In the city of Detroit. Four generations of being a Cass Tech alum, my grandpa, father, my mother, myself and my son and so I'm very connected from an educational perspective to this community. To the Dexter bus and the Hamilton bus right outside here at Cass tech. And we had at that time, this was called the calves corridor. And so I have saw I've seen the actual transformation of this area. As part of that I had decided to being in these halls and being here at Cass tech to become an entrepreneur. And one of the connections that I have here that's very unique, maybe from everyone else that is here is that I am a developer. I've developed here in this community in the impacted area just developed a $60 million development on Woodward Avenue, just south of Mac and I lived there and so I'm connected to the tenants connected to that community in this community. I think I can offer a different perspective as relates to being a developer, and what it takes to give back to this community just as me and my partners have as we've done our development. And so in any way I'm going to be involved if I'm not appointed if I'm not elected, this is my community. I am tied to this community in this in this area. But certainly I would love to be part of that enact to offer any talents and perspective that I can thank you
thank you very much. You can go ahead
and we will put all the names up on the slide before it's time to vote. So just just so you all know so you don't have to memorize the names even though they are all very memorable people. You can go ahead, sir.
Good evening neighbors for tonight's event. I'm Terrence Reed Rei D. I say that only because everybody that knows me knows me as TR. I'm a Michigander Michigan and depending on your preference, as a native but a Detroit or by choice. My wife and I left the state for about 20 years. We were in Texas. We're in Singapore immediately before coming home. We were in Zurich. And as we came back, we explained to the realtor what we were looking for. And despite that when we arrived he'd scheduled viewings for us in Plymouth in Ann Arbor in Northville in Royal Oak and Birmingham in addition to Detroit, and we made it really efficient for him by saying those are all fine communities. We choose to live in Detroit and we do we're homeowners in rush Park. We're here now we're here for the past three years and we're committed here for the long term. One of the things I think I bring to this kind of a project is experience living and working and traveling in a great deal to other places. And so while I have no interest in replicating someplace else here in Detroit, we do have experience with highly dense, highly diverse, high functioning communities, just exactly what we see evolving and what we want to be part of here. And so I like very much to be able to contribute to that in this fashion or by other means. In my work we focus on and I encourage my team to think about outcomes, outcomes first what do we want to achieve and then the means to do that and for me outcomes, I think include diverse, a diverse community in all ways, period. A community that's walkable in our six years overseas, we didn't own a vehicle. We know what a highly functioning urban setting looks like and operates like and something in that direction. We think would be ideal. We're interested in a community that's healthy and growing for its people and economically as well. And more than anything, we want a city that's welcoming, like Detroit has been to us and safe for all and if I can help do that, I'd welcome that chance Terrence Reed. BTR if I meet you on the street, thanks,
thank you come on up.
Good evening, everybody. My name is Henry Williams. I am a lifelong Detroiter from black bottom, I could remember told me young your dad used to come over my grandfather's house and they would sit and meet and they strategize about him becoming a senator then Mayor this great city now we talk about the impact air and we speaking about the impact that we're making now, but this area had been impacted for years negatively. So we're going to turn this thing around and we're going to make a positive impact with all the new investment, the new hotels and everything coming up. But my thing is, I'm an advocate for the seniors in the area. The seniors here you know, we've been included down on average street with a building where we've been impacted as well because we handicapped seniors disabilities and there's no place to park you know, we have all these beautiful new venues. Little Caesars arena Fox, Comerica Park Ford Field, and we're impacted because when we come home at night, some of us still work. There's nowhere for us to park we have to walk blocks to get home and it's getting cold and our old bones can't take it no mo. But if I'm elected, I will serve it my priority will be for the seniors in the area. Not only the seniors, but that's going to be my main focus. So, again, my name is Henry Williams, and thank you so much.
Thank you and welcome. Oh, hello,
good evening. My name is Logan. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. No, my name is Mark. I am I was born in Detroit. I went through the riots. The economic disaster of Detroit. And now I see that is, you know, revived, and I'm happy about it. I'm very happy about it. What I'm not so happy about is that us poor
people.
I kind of got left behind we can get pushed out of Detroit. And I'm kind of sad about it. I I was a police officer for the state of Michigan. For 21 years. I became ill. So I retired. I moved in I was a homeowner in northwest Detroit. I lost my house to the disaster of the housing market back in 2007. I've moved a few places in Detroit and I've settled in 2018 to Whitworth just south of Martin Luther King and new apartment building there. So new senior citizen apartment building it was four years ago. Now they're allowing a lot of other people there. But I was a witness to the construction and I welcome you know, revitalization but the seniors to handicapped people during that construction. We couldn't get we weren't negatively impacted and it seemed nobody cared. We had to walk in the street to go to the store. People in wheelchairs on what work okay, no lights nothing. I want to represent us and I want to say something to the right people. And just provide some representation. Thank you.
Thank you Hello, everyone out
there. How you doing? My name is Tony Stewart. I'm a community activists all over the city. I live in Detroit and Detroit been our hometown for years. I know a lot of developers and all the new guys run the Michigan Regional Council capitals and me All right, so I know how to bring in our people. And when I'm tired of seeing this, African America Detroit is not getting a fair shake on the good paying jobs. So I said on the last Advisory Board, we had a lot of them come out of that very well and they doing very good now. So the only reason I'm running to get back on his boy is make sure the peace between the contractor developer and the owners and the unions in the community. But we all want. We all come together so we all can grow together. That's the bottom line and what why I'm trying to run the get on this get appointed else get voted in. So I appreciate you giving me your vote. I made sure that we all come together we grow together. Detroit won't be not without growing together. I seen it grow. I've seen it that and I seem to come back. We got to grow together
All right, come on up. And it looks like this may be our final candidate.
It's tough to follow everybody else but thank you for giving your time today. My name is Donald Emiri. I live in brush Park. I moved to Detroit in 2015. My story's a little bit different. I was not born in United States but I what I'm sort of passionate around is education because it sort of made a big difference in my life. I went to college and graduate from Wayne State University. And I also went to Michigan State recently just going through from that perspective, and part of the reason I decided to stand up in front of you here today was just I was listening to the meeting last session and like consensus results some frustration from the audience of what happened last time. It was not involved. I currently serve on the Masters board for brush Park. So it just for me, I'd love to have an opportunity to support and help where I can. But if I can if I can have your vote and I'd love to help be part of solutions for the future of Detroit.
All right. And
team is that is that the final candidate everyone else has come through. Okay, that's great. And I know and we know do we have a slide ready to up if you can go back to the PowerPoint and put it on share screen from where we last left off. Maybe go back Oh, go back a slide.
I can't I Clicker is not working anymore. You go back a couple slides. Hopefully you
got everyone up there correctly. But I need to go back a couple slides to talk about the voting because I'm not
going coins. Fascinating.
Well, you can see the candidates and I hope we got everyone up there I'm sure I'm sure that we did.
Yes. One more slide back
here we go. One more slide back. Possibly.
Maybe. Wow.
Wow. We are figuring that out. Oh, there we go. Thank you. So much. So when you checked in, you should have gotten and you are an impact area resident you live in the impact area. You should have received a ballot. It looks like this. When we show the candidate names you'll be able to write your name and your address the two candidates who want to vote for you get to vote for to two different ones you can't write same name twice and only get counted once so please just write two different names. And then you'll sign just attesting to the fact that you are indeed a resident of the impact area and therefore eligible
to vote if we can go to the next slide. So just as
reminder, everything what I said that's the impact area. I just want to I know Anton you had a special guests but I'm going to come to that in just a second. So I want to note so Does anyone not have about that thought they should have about for some reason. We tried to be pretty particular about it. When people were coming in.
Yes, ma'am. We,
if you spoil the bow, can you get another one? Yes. And I think it looks like most of my check in folks have extra ballots in the back. So yes, we will just make sure that you know, we get your name and we make sure that's all set up and you give us the whole ballot. So there's that. After everyone votes, we're going to have general q&a. And while that's happening, we're going to have a group of folks who are counting the votes, a group of folks who are observing the count. And so let's go ahead and put the names back up. Thank you. So while people are voting, I would like to invite up I think we have a special guest in their elected officials at right director Bryant who would like to give their greetings as well. So please go ahead and take this time to vote.
Let me just say let's give a round of applause to our candidates. Sorry, I was getting a little caught up with the technology by design knowledge is a amazing group of people who are who are
volunteering their time
for the for the benefit of the community and to make sure the community's voice is heard.
Yes, Director Brian
you once people are
done we were going to do a q&a when unless it's something that you think it's hurt. I mean, it doesn't need to be raised now. That doesn't want to give up and do not want to basically Okay, okay. I've listened people are voting. Leave a comment, leave a big thumbs down now.
So while while you are voting, let me just tell you about some things that are going to happen next. So we're going to Okay, so if you need a new ballot, Sue burrows in the far back I know has extra ballots and we'll give you a new numbered ballot and we'll just take to make sure we know who.
Whose ballot we're getting
and exchanging. So I'm going to ask I'm going to need some volunteers for the vote counting and observing so just so everyone knows, colleagues from the city are going to be involved in reading the ballots and marking who votes and I'll be Edwina I'll be Jose Lemos. I think you are over here. Eva Torres, District Six manager Emily Howard, Director of constituent services is that your new title Malia okay, I believe so. Awesome person. In addition, I'm gonna invite members of the staff from each of the Council offices, one member from each council office to come and observe the vote. So if you think we've already talked to most of your offices, so if you have a staff member who would like to observe, we'd like to invite one of you. If you want to queue up on the stage that'd be helpful.
I can't hear okay,
I think we got those names. Also. I know there's some folks here who didn't vote because they don't live in the impact here. I'm looking for two resident volunteers who are not voters who didn't vote or not. They're not and and obviously not candidates for the neck either. To volunteer to also observe the vote tabulation process. So if two members would like to come up, I see one, go ahead and come up and other hand at someone else like to observe. Alright, see another one in the back. So so we're gonna go to a room where you're going to look at all the results and mark them down so you won't be on the stage. Would it be great if you come up here for a second? And then if anyone's still voting, anyone still need to complete their ballot. Okay, what we're going to do, Miss king if you you have the ballot box actually under your chair, and we're going to assemble that and we are going to collect ballots in just a moment. Okay, similarly has got one more belt needs to be completed.
So, just to demonstrate we're a little low tech here, this is the ballot box. Just everyone observe. It's empty. There's no ballots in there. No ballot stuffing. Okay. It taped that up y'all saw me
I brought my tape event think they should they
should be able to come up here this bow box has served us very well through many nap processes and votes so
please spell it here. Good, secure. Okay, so I'm going to ask one of our helpers to walk up the aisle and you can and pass your ballots down and we will insert them into the ballot box. Thank you everyone. While that is going on. We want to invite our guests from Wayne County here to give some remarks. So I think we have someone representing county executive Evans
Is that Is that him? Yeah. Come on up. Thank you. Thanks so much.
Good evening, everybody. Let me get some more energy than that. Good evening, everybody. How are you? First off,
I want to thank all the organizers. I want to thank all the candidates who had the courage to stand up here and represent their communities and doing the work that they're trying to do. And thank you to all of you in attendance to taking the time out of your busy schedules to be here. It's really give back to the community. So for all of you, please let's give everybody a round of applause. My name is Hassan Sheikh I am the Interim Director of Economic Development at Wayne County. On behalf of our county CEO Warren C. Evans, who is extremely interested in this important development project in the county. I offer greetings, and I look forward to future conversations with each and every one of you, as well as all the developers and everyone involved in this project. If anyone in the crowd would like to contact me, you can reach me at Via email at h chic at Wayne county.com. I'll be making my way around and again, I really appreciate all of you because it's individuals like yourselves that really drive what we're trying to do in terms of making the county a better place. For all of us to live, laugh, play, and really make this a place that is welcoming for everybody. So again, thank you to everybody and I wish you all a great evening. Thank you. Thank you.
Always appreciate the county as a important partner, as well. So I believe the ballot box has gone up. One side of the movie is making your way along there and the votes are being deposit so I thank you all for your patience. While we are doing that. I would just like to maybe if we could have our observers just introduce themselves briefly. So I'm going to come right over here and we're just gonna go down the line. And
just so everyone knows. Oh, I'm really sorry Latasha Washington. Thank you.
Michelle broden from Erie waters office.
Malikai Barrett,
I'm a reporter with bridge Detroit. Yes, we have an immediate to draw race client Community Services Manager with the Office of councilmember Santiago Romero.
Thank you. rolling them out. They're here with the City Planning Commission.
Amy McLaughlin with Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation and Woodbridge Citizens Council.
Raise your Kempson with a great Coleman a young a second. Thank you all one last call for ballots any other ballots still out there that haven't been deposited? Anyone raise your hand wave at me like make sure I make sure all the votes are counted. Okay, go on once going twice. We're going to have we're going to sequester our observers and our counters. They're going to go ahead and figure that out and do the count. And then we are going to next go to General q&a. So
thank you all. We're gonna do q&a. All right.
All right. I think Malia and everyone Edwina is going to guide you all to where you all are going.
All right. And thank you again, this is you know, democracy in action right here small d democracy and it is always a pleasure. So at this point, I think we have some people who are interested in Potat possibly doing asking some questions. I'm going to ask our development partners, maybe to come back up on the stage to be prepared, because these are questions you know, we can ask about the process or about the projects, we have the process of the project. So q&a is always an important part of any public meeting. And so, I believe, to my right, we will have Mr. Butler with a microphone. Do you want to queue up there to my left we'll have Mr. Roberson also have a microphone. Able to take anyone who is interested in asking questions about everything we've just been doing the last
hour and a half or so.
If we can bring the timer back up on the screen and give it a one minute gauge time that would be excellent.
So I see people queued up on my left so we'll go ahead and start with
gentleman when you go ahead talking with Scott and start the timer. I don't mind make sure that microphone is on and Charles and Eva make sure these microphones these remote microphones are
that microphones on justice.
Ears just good. Okay. All right. Okay, we can we'll try that again. Go ahead, sir. All right.
I was concerned about with auto construction. This plan. I've heard people mentioned earlier this evening that when construction was going on before, seniors and folks who were didn't have as much mobility, we're sort of just sort of left to the wayside. What are the plans to making sure that during all this construction that's going to be going on in this area? To make sure that folks they'll have accessible ways to get around and to move around flow, a flow of traffic and things of that nature.
I'd like to pitch it to one of our members the development team if y'all would like to.
So, thanks for the question. I think as we work through the development plans, we will be working to make sure that there is safe and consistent access around the projects as they're constructed. And we will also be working I would expect with an ACC excited to see who gets elected to to work through those plans. And then the other thing that we found successful in a lot of our projects is just sending a look ahead out to members of the community who are interested as well as community groups to let them know, you know, here's what's going to be happening in the next two weeks because one of the biggest things I think is when people are surprised by what's happening that can cause problems. And so the more that we can communicate about what's coming and make sure that we get feedback, if there are issues and do that in advance, the more successful we'll be in terms of ensuring that there aren't impacts on access and other construction related nuisance
Thank you
that was Andrew Cantor from related and when you all come up in probably reintroduce yourself okay, we're gonna go to my right here the next question
Thank you. We've
lived here for 22 years and I'm really excited when the arena was built. But now that there's events, the traffic on Cass is unbelievable. They there's people, the bike lanes and the people turning into parking lots and we can't get back and forth to our house when we go out at night if there's an event. So is there anything you can do in that regard?
Hi, Keith Bradford, I
lead the Olympic development team. Thank you for your question. These are similar questions that we had with the previous NAT committee went after the arena was built and it's something that we know can be a concern of the community. What we try to balance there is successful you know, ingress and egress of the of those trying to attend the events. And we work with the police department, obviously. And sometimes we do block roads to expedite the egress. And we've been successful in that we can we can unload a garage in less than 20 minutes. So we'll know that might be a question going forward. We'll be glad to hear more ideas and welcome those ideas in the following meetings with the NSA.
Okay, thank you. Thank you. And
so I was reminded before we go there that we actually do have about 70 people who have joined us on zoom as well. I know some folks have questions there. So I am going to go to ask Mr. Perkins, who is managing our zoom q&a to go ahead and either read the question or invite the person to speak their question. Good evening.
Thanks a lot, Eric. I'm going to ask Mr. Mike sand to go ahead and unmute. Yes, several questions in the chat. He was the first one. You have. You can ask your question.
Yes. Can you hear me all right. Yes, we can.
Yes, I've been involved with the Vietnam Veterans of America, Detroit chapter nine since 1981. We hold a property at the corner of Woodward and temple. And we've hosted parades and Armed Forces Day and Veterans Day, all these years and we've worked very closely with the village family who recognize the service and sacrifice of our veterans, our military personnel. I have not heard one thing in this meeting about what's happening with the Veterans Memorial Park, which was promised to us back as far as 1981. Can anybody answer that question? Or can we be directed to the right route
to proceed with this venture?
Thank you. Think we're happy to
follow up and take a meeting right after this and discuss so please, let's follow up and I think try the best way to distribute contact information. We may have your information. I think, Ryan I'm looking at Ryan Friedrichs, he has your information and we'll we'll follow up and and have a meeting this week with you. Thank you.
All right. Thank you go ahead to Mr. Roberson and Mike on my left okay, we need to get this mic operating is did you push the button is it got the green light on? Okay. So we're looking at the stage left mic while we're waiting for that. I'm gonna go ahead. stage right and we'll come back right back to you, sir. Okay. Thank you.
Hi, my name is Francis Grunow. I had a question specific to a couple of images and follow up since last week. The film Exchange Building One, is there no opportunity to adaptively reuse that has that been considered? I think we should know more about that. It'd be great to know more about that. And then the other one in terms of the Moose Lodge I know that has an interior that's quite interesting and special and unique. And question about whether the incubator would conceive of that space being integrated into the redevelopments kind of unclear from the renderings.
Again, thank you for your question. Both the buildings you're describing. Were early in the designs, we've got some preliminary renderings, as you saw that we shared it today. And we know for example, in the Moose Lodge that there's some great history there and so forth and we want to make sure that we incorporate that into the design. As far as the film exchange is still early in the design. of that building as well. We're exploring the is the building something we can use and that design, but it's still too early to tell us we very preliminary in those in those designs. Okay.
Thank you all right. Sounds like fun likes working all right.
Sterling shirt resident. I love the plan. Notice that most of the district is kind of aimed toward residential which is wonderful. I was just wondering I'm have asked for too much. I was wondering if maybe we can put like a like some type of entertainment complex or maybe like a movie theater, like within the district because a lot of times we only have, I believe one movie theater in the entire cities. That sits on the borderline of eight mile. And I actually used to work at the Westin Book Cadillac with the Ravens whenever we're playing the red Wednesday. opposing team. Some of the players who actually asked me what do you guys have to do around here before we can, you know, go to the game and we will say well go to casino Okay, what's your Casino? What else so can be like some type of complex where people aren't just going to the game eating and just drive them back home and when he comes out he'll have a great time like, you know, things like something like that. I don't know if he's asked for too much. And one more question. I'm gonna like a plan for the comic, the dead zone that's east of Motor City casino that Lana is going to hear about that for a year. So what do you take on that?
Thank you for your question and the constructive suggestion we appreciate it. So as it relates to movie theater or other retail mix, I think we're happy to take suggestions and are thinking about that, you know, actively but I think that's gonna take time to progress. And so as we continue to to do that, we would mindful of suggestions like that and really want to make sure that we're putting retail in place that is, you know, embraced and enjoyed by the entire community. So thank you for that. As it relates to the area that you're talking about, sort of a little bit further north and, and west from from the projects that we're talking about. And that's as part of, we're thinking about that as part of a larger planning study for the area, Northwest OCAs Park and working with the city on on that as well so that we can think about growth and development over time there. I think we view the kind of critical step to be to create density at at the most sort of logical place for that density and what we've you know, said was the sort of the 50 yard line of everything and then have development and opportunity and growth that comes from that in the areas around. So thank you.
Hello, my name is Moses Smalley. I'm a resident here in Detroit. I'm a small business owner and a radio and TV developer. Here. I have one question, since we're going to have all these retail stores as popping up with all these residential commercials or residential that's going to be around it. How much percentage of minority do we have as an entrepreneur of retail space that is going around in those communities?
Thank you for that question. Your concern is also my concern. I think we have done a great job of doing a tremendous amount of outreach to the small business community to date, but we know that there's more to do. I think we're early in our process as far as a commitment to a percentage, but we are incredibly mindful of supporting the small business ecosystem. And in my presentation on last Tuesday, we underscored how important it is to support these businesses and some of the things that we've done to help them climb out of COVID. But I would love for that suggestion. To come up to the neck and a conversation that we pour into. Thank you.
Thank you. And before we go to the next impersonal, we're gonna go back to the Zoom audience. So hold your question there and Mr. Perkins. Please queue up the next zoom participant.
All right, that would be Rashad alphabet.
You can unmute yourself and ask your questions
Hello, they can hear you Hello. We can hear you.
Okay, I hear a lot of talk about suggestions in different areas and I'm not sure if you guys have enough land for that and I was just suggested and just notifying you that I'm going to be putting eight parcels for sale across the street from the Innovation Center and cast stack. I actually listed them in the q&a. It's eight parcels including two buildings right there I 75 and Grande River. So just to let you know, those properties are going to be on the market.
Okay, duly noted. Thank you, Mr. Alibag.
And I'm sure
our development team has been taking notes on those parcels. Alright, we'll go ahead next to the in person. Audience once again.
Theo pry with Detroit people's platform. I had a quick question around conflict of interest issues with NAC candidates and those who will be voting in today How will conflict of interest be handled? Also to because the neutrality of those who serve on the NAC is so important their ability to be objective as possible. We all know this to be very important. I believe that there should be a vetting process. And perhaps the vote tonight should be conditional until each candidate is properly vetted. So if anybody can address that for me, that will be appreciated. Thank you.
Yes, thank you for the question. I will handle that. So we do ask that any NAT candidates or people who are to be appointed in an act declare any conflict of interest that they may have with the developer or the city. As I mentioned before, obviously, employees have a major conflict of interest and are not able to, to serve. So once we do know who those candidates are, we will definitely make sure and clarify and that there are that they declare they don't have any conflicts of interest. If they do have conflicts of interests, we will take those on a case by case basis.
We'll go ahead and the next in person session. I'm Barbara
Logan again, and I have a couple of questions. But the first one is
Olympia
MGM like elige for the Little Caesars, made a lot of promises to Detroiters in order to build and develop. Some of those promises were not kept. So who was going to enforce compliance or is compliance voluntary non negotiable? Or what?
So I will start and the folks in development team want to add on they're more than welcome to so when it comes to projects that go through this process, the community benefits ordinance process. What you do end up with is a binding agreement between the city and the developer. So the things that are negotiated by the NAC that the developer agrees to and the city agrees to because it's ultimately agreement between the city and the developer, that the next supports, those are all binding and enforceable, and we have a process to deal with it. And we have a monitoring process First of all, twice a year. The Enforcement Committee led by our civil rights inclusion and opportunity department will issue a report rating how this particular project is doing every single line item promise they made, whether they're on track off track, haven't started or whatever. If there is an issue of a community member and that member says, Hey, we don't think that the developer is living up to XYZ promise, then we have a complaint of compliance process. And so we will we can bring that we can see look internally like, Hey, what's going on and do an investigation. If that does is unsatisfactory, we can take to the Enforcement Committee, Enforcement Committee can make findings. The NEC is still not satisfied with the outcome. They can take it all the way to city council and city council can then also take a look and decide what should be done. So there are multiple layers and multiple steps to make sure that every single provision in these agreements is adhered to and in the spirit and the letter so I hope that answers and I don't know if you all want to speak at all, to
yeah, very quickly.
I just wanted to underscore our commitment to being highly communicative. We want to open up a community space to address that question so people can walk in get that information, check in on the status of projects. So we do want to make ourselves available and accountable to the community.
Thank you. We will go to the next question. All right. Good
evening, Tanya Meyers. Phillips, lifelong Detroit resident. I have two questions. One, will all partners for this development, disclose all public incentives that they've received, whether that be city, county, state, federal, I'm not sure but I believe this development that lies in the opportunity zone for this proposed development and for the last proposed development is very hard to evaluate what you're proposing, you know, out of context to what has been received already, so maybe those things aren't required by the ordinance but in the spirit of transparency, will you disclose that information to the NOC and to the public? And my second question, is racial equity. Will you adopt a racial equity framework for evaluating the proposals and the outcomes for this project?
So I'll start and then I think I'll hand it off to the development team. So in regards to incentives, so the meeting three on January 10, there'll be a very thorough presentation on the on the incentives and the financial fiscal impact, particularly for the city and other taxing jurisdictions. And those are incentives that um, you know, specifically to your point, or those that the city has a role in approving or has a, you know, has an impact on the city finances. To your point, there are often other types of incentives and things going on and I will leave it to the development team to respond to that particular piece in the
second question. For the
the first question, the answer is yes, we will be transparent. So that's a short answer. I think on the second question, you know, we've talked about our 5g framework, and our commitment to equity. And, and, and I think that diversity, inclusion and equity have been sort of fundamental to what we're doing here. And so, you know, I'm happy. I think we're all happy to engage in that conversation and understand in your mind what that looks like. And then, you know, continue to discuss and I would just say it's not only important to the development team, but as we talk to tenants who are thinking about investing and being part of this community, it's actually a fundamental attraction for them. And so we really think that this is, this is not something we have to do or should do. This is something that you know, is actually fundamental and central to the business premise of what we can do here as well as being the right thing to do.
Okay, we'll go ahead to the next in person question and then I'll follow up probably see if there's a more zoom ones after you
Hello, my name is Mark. I am a lifelong Detroiter. It seems like a really nice, you know, plan, you know, looks cool, I hope it actually happens. I mean, I feel like we've seen so much from this developer that's never happened. Renderings just time after time. But nothing's ever been done. Nothing's ever been built. So I hope this actually happens. Also be nice if the 40 or so. buildings that are abandoned the Olympia owns it'd be nice if those renovated or, you know, we're even more housing I think, you know, just the large amount of abandoned buildings is you know, kind of a blight on the area. And, you know, like cm fixed versus turned into parking lots or you know, pretty much that thank you.
I'm sorry. Again,
thank you for your comments and understand, and I you know, I've noticed over the last two meetings, there has been some frustration expressed over maybe the years or the the time that has taken to develop some of these things, but you know, we are very ambitious and and excited about what we're presenting and bringing forward. It has a number of historic developments. It is addressing some development on top of parking lot. So we're excited about what we're bringing forward and looking forward to making this happen over the next five years.
All right, I know we have a number of questions on Zoom. So if you will, please. Bear with us. We're going to invite Mr. Perkins to bring the next person joining us remotely to ask their
question. Okay,
I don't see her online anymore. But her question was, yeah, two quick questions are all the meetings of this advisory board? Open? And second question, will the biking community be able to safely ride around these projects?
Thank you for those questions. I'll take the first one. Yes, all of the public meetings with the NEC starting on January 10, will be open to the public and anyone will be available to attend.
The question about biking? Yes, yes, I can go to go right ahead. Yes. Short
and sweet. I will go one more to in person here.
Good evening. My name is John Perkins. I am a business representative for the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and millwrights. Before this position here, I started my career off in the construction industry about about 10 years ago as a carpenter apprentice at the ELCA projects like this, provide direct pathways to apprenticeship opportunities that allow me not only to provide for my family, but also recruit the youth here in the city of Detroit. The exposure in the direct access to apprenticeship opportunities is key to the future of the industry of our industry. But most importantly the future of the success of that young man or a woman wanting to pursue a career in the construction industry. I'm in full support of this project. And I just wanted to make a comment to say that projects like this development like this is what's going to make sure that our youth have these assessable opportunities.
Thank you Thank you for your comment. I'm going to go back to the Zoom audience cuz I know we have a couple more there. So Mr. Perkins.
Okay, Mr. Robert Pope Loski you can unmute. Good evening, can I be hurt? Yes. Okay. Perfect.
Go ahead. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I cut you off. Go ahead.
No worries gonna have the timer restarted for that. If you don't mind.
Yes, we can go back to one minute. It's my fault.
Perfect. Thank you so much. Good evening, everyone. My name is Robert Palacky. I present the Wayne County Youth Council for district 15 And I also represent the Regional Transit Authority Citizens Advisory Committee. I'm calling in regards to the project. First thing I'd like to say this is actually my first time viewing the project in front of the people that are presenting tonight's wonderful presentation. I look forward to the zoning area especially now since we have the Transportation Innovation Zone that's going into effect and being condoned a study in Corktown. Hopefully we can start looking into Transportation Innovation zones in the northern portion into Midtown. So I just like to say thank you so much for all the hard work this has done to condone this project. I don't really have a question more of a statement but anything we can do to help out at the Regional Transit Authority system advisory committee to help out we would love to be a part of this process and also give comments or you know, give us our feedback. Anything that we can do. My information is listed below with any of the folks that have it on hand and look forward to being in touch with you guys. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for the comment and your support, and your willingness to be engaged and appreciate it. We'll go to our next question here in the audience.
Barbary Logan again, I'm a lower income resident. So I'm interested in knowing if you guys plan on building any lower income housing, especially if you probably going to displace a lot of lower income.
Residents.
I'm so glad you asked that question because I think we clearly need to be clear about this. So our plan is first of all, not to displace anyone. There is no displacement associated with the project. The In fact, the one project that the one project that involves a building that's currently occupied by residents, the Henry Street Apartments that we talked about as the first project, Olympia actually and it's not it's not a project that relate as a part of but um, you know, our partners at Olympia have gone out and purchased another building, rehabilitated that building right nearby to make sure that there's not a you know, there's not dislocation in terms of the neighborhood experience for those residents. moved at Olympia is cost the residents to the new location. They're going to rehab the apartments in their current building. And then at no cost again to the residents, move them back into the same apartments if they want to come back and the rent will stay the same as it was before. So I'm talking about residents who are making it I think it is worth around a quote. So we're talking about residents who are paying rents as low as $300 a month right now, so deeply affordable apartments so that that's that's one one answer. The other answer is in of course and in all the new projects that we're we're building, which are happening on parking lots, we're not displacing anyone, or are in empty buildings, vacant buildings that we're bringing back and restoring. We're planning 20% Of all the of all the units as fordable as targeted for people who are making 30 to 50% of the area median income. So the area median income, it actually changes it's a government issued scale depending on what how many people are in your household. But for people, it's approximately $30,000 would be the 50% level. So people making $30,000 or less would qualify for those apartments and you would not be able to qualify if you made more than that depending on the size of your household. So we are really committed to building deeply affordable housing, not displacing anyone.
And thank you again for your question.
All right, I know we have more folks on Zoom. So I'm going to keep that rotation going right now. So Mr. Perkins.
All right. Mr. Brandon
Hodges has a question for you. Mr. Hyde,
just yeah, the floor. Can you hear me? Absolutely. Good evening.
Thank you just really quickly wanted to know, would there be any community or resident investment opportunities in any of the products mentioned? You know, I'm thinking of either a co investment model or some kind of sidecar. We're really trying to drive true economic opportunity outside of just jobs.
Thanks. We're looking
at a variety of different options. We've seen the successful kind of neighborhood investment models in in other cities and other neighborhoods. And so we're considering an open to it, and happy to continue that dialogue as we go. Through the NAC process.
In person,
okay, I have, um, represented to kind of people why I'm really nervous, my voice may get to shake. So forgive me. I'm getting better. And by the time this process is over, I hope to be able to speak like one of you up there. That's number one. Number two. Olympia has Megan's Megan's Megan's and I will say billions of dollars. You have to in order to do this, and you're asking for help. I'm gonna follow your lead. Here's my problem. I make too much in order to get food stamps, Section Eight, Medicaid, and different qualifying and wanting to build things. But I don't make enough to get a one bedroom apartment and one of your buildings. What can the community benefits give to help me out? And hundreds of people like me?
First of all, thank you, you're doing great. So thank you for the question and I'm gonna pass it off to one of the members from the team.
First of all, thank you for standing up and asking your question, appreciate it. And yeah, well, my voice probably shaking too at this point. So you know, just got to fake it. So the the other thing I'd say, as it relates to how housing and particularly I think what has been described often is sort of the missing middle. There are a lot of programs that are supportive of affordable housing, not often deeply affordable the way that we've put this program together, but affordable housing, and then there's market rate and sometimes there's a gap. And we, you know, we're looking to find ways to provide housing at every level. It's part of the reason we plan to build a whole series of different apartment buildings, as you saw in the plans so that we can actually have different position kind of in the market and hopefully meet your needs and the needs of others as well. And it's a continuing challenge, though, that I think is felt not just by any one single developer, but across the the entire city and state and honestly nation right now, in terms of finding that the missing middle and how to house people. So thank you for your question. Thank you for raising it and we will continue to be thinking about it and advocating for our solutions that help to address it.
And one other question. I know what buildings downtown now? I would say because we work with Dan givers people too. Every time they open apartment building. My landlord had to go up on the rent to compete with you all. So what can we do? So I read once again, don't go up $100 A month $200 A month. And $300 a month, a year later? So I
think the biggest solution to this is something that that Brian Barnhill highlighted before which is actually just creating more economic opportunity, more jobs and better paying jobs for more residents in Detroit. And so, by doing so, it'll allow more people to be able to afford the rent and be able to participate in kind of the growth which we do hope happens because honestly, if things are not if our static, we won't, you know, we need to be growing as a city and we need to be growing as a community. And so the goal is really to make sure that growth is inclusive and to create jobs and opportunity for many so that everyone can afford that apartment. As as things continue to get better.
And more dedicated density that does state that does stay constant that stays locked in. So in all these properties that we're talking about. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember, thank you for highlighting that. Yes, I appreciate the clarification. So there will be the affordable housing stays affordable permanently. 20% of the housing that we're talking about.
All right, thank you. I do note that we have our observers back. I know it's gonna take a minute for us to get the results up on the screen. Do we have any more questions on Zoom? Yep, too. All right. Let's go ahead and get those folks to ask their questions while we are still getting the returns. Thanks for hanging out with us a little overtime.
Next question is from Ryan southern
southern you can unmute? Yes,
thank you. My question, I guess is regarding historic preservation. Olympia doesn't have a great track record. In this regard. The two projects that keep being touted the Eddystone and Henry Street the Eddystone had a twin that was across the street from from that building in Olympia insisted on tearing it down. And with Henry Street. It was a court order that stopped Olympia from tearing those buildings down and within the cast quarter in the general district. There are quite a few Olympia owned historic structures that are not included in this proposal. And I'm wondering what Olympia is commitment to preserving those buildings is going forward.
Thank you Excuse me.
Thank you for your question. I think the the projects that we've listed out, speaks to our commitment level on that. You know, we've, as you mentioned, the Eddystone we mentioned the Henry Street Apartments and what we're doing there you see the American listed as one of the projects that we're doing, again, a historic building, as well as Detroit life. All historic buildings. And so that is definitely something we know that it's important to residents, the city, the architecture, the city is something that the city is not well known for, and we want to be a part of preserving that. Thank you.
Okay, we'll go to the next question on Zoom.
Mr. Jordan Dixon. Jordan Dixon, you have the floor. Hello, can you hear me? Yep, we sure can. Good evening.
Hi. So I moved here two years ago for dental school. And I was wondering, have there been previous projects have that have gone through the CBO and regardless if they have or have not have the grievances in the past been addressed? And if so, yes. I mean, if they have like,
how have they been addressed?
So if I'm hearing correctly, the question is, have there been previous projects that have gone through the CBO process? And so the answer that question is yes, we've had 12 Since this ordinance was put into effect at the end of 2016. We've had 12 tier one projects that go through and you can learn all about them on our website, Detroit mi.gov/cbo. So encourage you check it out. Question about grievances complaints, develop concerns that a development may not have lived up to its promises to the CBO. So if we are notified of a complaint and we have a notification form that any resident can fill out on any project also on that website. We look at that we investigate it. We talked to the developer, we talk to the community members, and we try and we try and solve it. Before having to escalate it. But if we can't, then we do have the Enforcement Committee in place. And again, as I mentioned before, it can go all the way up to city council. It's never we've always been able to resolve them at the Enforcement Committee level. And, and we think that's best for everyone. But again, the process is there. And then I'm happy to talk more more about that but I won't take any more time. boring you. Well, it's not boring, but you get what I'm saying.
Any other questions on Zoom? No, sir.
All right. Can we just give it a hand to
Dennis? Wait.
Mr. Perkins, did you say you had someone?
Yeah, somebody just chimed in. Kevin
more. Last one. Give him more. You have a floor we're still waiting. We're still waiting for the results. Mr. Moore? Well, I'm you.
Well, this question reads I would like to recommend the developers to work with neighborhood Legal Services of Michigan, which is one of Detroit's largest nonprofit agencies that provide housing advocacy
services. Alright, right, thank you, Mr.
Moore. I think I can speak for the team and that we take that comment and we'll look forward to that opportunity. So I believe that closes public comment and again, as I was saying before, for the folks who are, you know, behind the scenes, Mr. Charles Henry Eva from dpscd and Antonio Mora Mills, Dennis Perkins. They're making magic happen. The fact that we can, you know, have this meeting here, have people participate who you know, weren't able to come out tonight. Truly remarkable. So I just want to give everyone from apartment neighborhoods and its media services, particularly around the pause and the school district. So thank you so much. And my wonderful colleague, Miss King, how are we looking over there? We're almost finished. So if you all can please just sit tight, maybe we can put on a little music, relax and promise to get you out of here very shortly. Yes, I see someone waving something at the back. comment cards? Yes, you all received comment cards. If you have a written comment. We would love to receive it. So I will ask some of our team members if you do have a comment card, please stick it up, pass it towards one of the aisles and we will come by and get them. In the meantime, Antonio, if we can put on some music I love that. Thank you.
All right. All right. All right. So we have results. We can go ahead and turn down the music. Thank you. Oh, wow. Nothing like waiting for election returns. Right. So I just want to say real quick before we do announce returns. First of all, I want to thank if y'all can please take a seat. And I promise we will be brief. I want to thank the observers, I think rolling from City Planning Commission. I want to thank the staff members from the each of the Council offices and the resident volunteers. And I just want to say I want to ask you, you know, how the observing went? Did you have any questions or concerns or the results that we're about to report or the results that you understand them as well? Good. Okay, thank you very much. And I just want to say one more thing. So we're going to put up the votes, we're going to put up the results. Do know that anyone who's on this list is also eligible to be appointed. If you didn't get the top two votes, it doesn't mean that you're out of the game. And you are eligible to be appointed in that and that will suppress it will take place over next week. And it doesn't necessarily matter how many votes you got any anyone would be eligible to be appointed, and that's up to each council member and the department. But we're here to talk about who is the Community Choice who won the election night. So if we can go ahead and put up on the screen, the slide that Miss King has so wonderfully put
together almost there
acknowledge it technology does wonderful things, but it also will fail us at the most inopportune moment
all right. Oh there we go.
Thank you. Oh,
it's cords
area okay. So thank you very much. And so you can see we had 42 Total folks vote. We had one spoil ballot, so 41 total votes cast. Each person got two votes on that. And we see Terrance read or TR was received 12 votes. Henry Williams received 12 votes as well. So those are the two community selected. representatives to the neck. Congratulations. Thank you for being willing to serve. I very much appreciate that. As if you too could please stand up just so people can remember.
Thank you. And congratulations.
For the rest rest of you all you are still candidates and nominees for the NEC and you know we will allow city council members to make their choices and PDD will also make their choices so please stay in touch. We have your contact information. I thank you again deeply for being willing to put yourself forward I know it is not easy and thank you. So with that he's being completed if we can please, I think are able to advance the next slide. I just want to share again, go to our website. Everything's going to be up there. I mentioned it before I'll mention it again. I'll mention it every night. Detroit mi.gov Ford slash district Detroit we have an email list. too. Can we go to the next slide? Is the schedule means that we're taking a break until January 10. And then we'll be right back into it every Tuesday. So I you know, have a good holiday. But one more slide. This is it. I promise you and then we're all going to go home. So January 10 6pm. We'll open the doors at 530. We'll be here will be the first meeting with the seated neighborhood Advisory Council. We're going to have project details presented by dgcx on the financials as to the question that was asked before in person, also zoom option but a love to see here in person please register if you haven't. And with that thank you to the development team. Thank you to all my colleagues from the city everyone making magic happen backstage. Have a very wonderful holiday break. And Good night everyone.
In the holiday spirit, you
may notice these lovely poinsettias sitting up on the stage. If you would like one, take it home. Enjoy it. With your family. Have a great holiday day. Real real real. Real Real